Somalia’s pathways to ending the conflict, is it working?

[Arafaat]

Listen to this TEDx talk on lessons from dozens of civil wars studies throughout the world. Main extraction is that Leadership, Diplomacy and institutional design are the main pathways for Peace to ending conflict. And what happens in Somalia to end the conflict, its completely the opposite;

-Leadership: Solution is sought in the same kind of ‘strong men’ that were the cause of the conflict in the first place, rather then reflecting what went wrong and what kind of leadership is needed that can pull the country of the conflict. 

-Diplomacy: Diplomacy is declared dead, with politicians consistently calling for more fighting and violence, language of diplomacy is nowhere to be seen by using blatantly harsh words that bring one another closer, rather then seeking unifying commonalities between larger groups, one mentions publicly divisive sub-clans and other actions that further widen the gap and polarize.

-Institutional design: Instead of addressing the root causes of the Somali conflict (widening gap of social and economic inequality’s) through institutional design of the state and public goods, one center’s the whole conflict and institutional design around federalism and regionalism, as if the Regions of Somalia were in war with eachother. And rather then narrowing and addressing the distance between the leaders and the people, what do we do, the new ruling elite take seat in the same palace on top of the hill that is Villa Somalia, as if nothing happened in the 30 years of conflict. And then one is completely startled when they see how easily poor soldiers and poor villagers are being rallied to raid and attack Villa Somalia with AK’s and mortars by disenfranchised officers, politicians cq Warlords, Shababi’s, Foreign countries and whoever is willing to rally them to bring down the elite’s from their palace, as they are only witnessing another elite in power that is so self consumed with self enrichment, in their own little palace with their own little games, and have absolutely no impact or added value  whatsoever for the people in the country. The little bit of NGO and donors aid reaching the people in the villages throughout the country,  have and will provide a bit of aid and food support anyway, irrelevant of the elite’s in their palaces. 

 

[maakhiri1]

Leadership failure, that able to vision the future.

Stops here. Nothing else matters 

[maakhiri1]

When you look how things look for Palestinians now, Oslo was very good opportunity and missed.

[galbeedi]

6 hours ago, maakhiri1 said:

When you look how things look for Palestinians now, Oslo was very good opportunity and missed.

Oslo was destroyed by right wing leaders , Sharon and Netanyahu. The Zionists had murdered Ishak Rabin who negotiated the deal. Netanyahu rejected everything in his first term 1996, and Sharon bombed all Palestinian infrastructure including the Ramalla airport, police stations ,and bulldozers came to the house of Yaser Arafat.

Other than leadership, this simpleton proff. has only narrated the conflict zones of the world without real solutions. Dictatorships in the developing world are nurtured by the west . Democracy at home and despots abroad should be the slogan. Ireland is a first world nation , and when the British decided to accommodate the former terrorists (IRA) as equal partners , the conflict disappeared. We know why Palestine, Myanmar Rohingya and others are not resolved.

8 hours ago, Arafaat said:

what do we do, the new ruling elite take seat in the same palace on top of the hill that is Villa Somalia, as if nothing happened in the 30 years of conflict. And then one is completely startled when they see how easily poor soldiers and poor villagers are being rallied to raid and attack Villa Somalia

It is hard to judge the Somali issue with the presence of Al-shabaab in the equation which prevents development and nation building. 

[Arafaat]

18 hours ago, galbeedi said:

It is hard to judge the Somali issue with the presence of Al-shabaab in the equation which prevents development and nation building. 

The Shabaabi’s are part and parcel of the Somali issue and problems, why do you think you can find a solution by ignoring Al shabaab  and putting them out the ‘equation’. Extremism, Clannism and Anarchism are all symptoms from the disease, one can not ignore the causes and symptoms of it, and at the same time make progress and hope for a cure. 

[maakhiri1]

Shabaab is symptoms, very small part, just look area free from shabaab, still very dysfunctional